Sentence examples for staggering violence from inspiring English sources

Voters go to the polls against a backdrop of worsening domestic dynamics and staggering violence.

Josué becomes a victim of the staggering violence plaguing his country — his decapitation is one of fifty that occurs the same week.

The systematic use of child soldiers, which is designated as a war crime under international law, was documented in a report on the "staggering" violence suffered by civilians in Iraq over the past year.

Either way, he writes, "something happened in Deraa," and it is not surprising "that someone enduring such a trauma might wish to adorn its memory with staggering violence, the kind of violence that offers an absolution of guilt by making all questions of will or resistance moot".

Civilians in Iraq face "staggering" violence on a daily basis, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday, which recorded the killings of 18,802 people and almost twice as many wounded between the beginning of 2014 and the end of October 2015.

It warns against a great evil deceiver who will lead all but a tiny fraction astray (Matthew 24:4; II Thessalonians 2 9 12; Revelation 13) and foretells staggering violence against the enemies of the Lord (Revelation 19).

Chicago faces a host of critical issues including a looming debt crisis, underfunded city pensions, struggling public schools and staggering gun violence rates.

What follows is structurally ambiguous, but includes staggering degrees of violence in partnering: on several occasions one dancer hurls another to the floor with alarming force.

In some primarily antimodern forms, millennial movements can become highly authoritarian, suffused with conspiratorial thinking, implacably opposed to imagined enemies (e.g., Jews, independent women, denominational opponents), and capable of staggering acts of violence and self-destruction.

But we should take particular notice of the staggering amounts of violence brought down on the nation's women and girls each and every day for no other reason than who they are.

I was disheartened (but not surprised) when an email from the Dean of HKS hit my inbox, laying bare the staggering rates of violence on campus.